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Legal Versus Ethical: Web Scraping Edition

Webbiquity

However, there are other laws and legislations that guide web scraping, such as breach of contract, illegal access and use of data, trespass to chattels, and copyright infringement. Copyrighted material. Also, it is not possible to copyright ideas, only the representation or specific form of those ideas. Is the data copyrighted?

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Is Google Scraping Public Data for Training Bard?

Valasys

New Jersey, 26th July’23: On Monday, Gizmodo spotted that Google recently updated its privacy policy to disclose that its various AI services, such as Bard and Cloud AI, may be trained on public data that the company has scraped from the web. This latest update simply clarifies that newer services like Bard are also included.

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Scout: Surging Ad Agency Employment, Generative AI Copyright Concerns, and More

QuanticMind

Sarah Silverman Sues OpenAI and Meta Over Copyright Infringement [:02] Since generative artificial intelligence ’s dramatic public debut last fall, there’s been a lot of buzz around how best to regulate it, within an advertising context and beyond. Show off your marketing chops with our question of the week.

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Zoom Clarifies Terms Amid AI Privacy Concerns

Valasys

9th August, New Jersey: In response to mounting concerns and backlash, Zoom has taken swift action to update its terms of service, vehemently denying any unauthorized training of its artificial intelligence (AI) on customer calls.

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Your LLM Gets Its Data From Where??

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

You can’t know why the AI does what it does until you understand how the LLM was trained and where its data came from. It’s estimated that Wikipedia makes up between 3%-5% of the scraped data used to train off-the-shelf LLMs. LLMs trained on this data are versatile, and can generalize their knowledge to a range of topics.

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AI ethics: How marketers should embrace innovation responsibly

Sprout Social

Our community discussed several risks including privacy infringement, manipulation of public opinion and autonomous weapons. Watch the video below to hear their hot takes on the benefits and fears of AI, including job replacement: Privacy concerns Concerns surrounding data privacy, protection and security are top of mind for brands.

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What could disrupt the future of generative AI?

Martech

In addition to the risks embedded in relying on what is essentially unconscious and amoral “intelligence,” users also face the very real prospects that copyright and privacy issues could mortally wound large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. LLMs have already been trained on inconceivably large datasets.